Furniture buffer



April 4, 1950 J. M. ANDREW FURNITURE BUFFER Filed Sept. 14, 1948 IN VENTOR Patented Apr. 4, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT [OFFICE FURNITURE BUFFERJames Madison Andrew, Findlay, Ohio Application September 14, 1948,Serial No. 49,157

2 Claims. (Cl. 45-137) This invention relates to a novel and usefulhousehold device and more particularly and specifically to a buffer orbumper device for furniture and other household articles.

The primary object of this invention resides in the provision of abumper device adapted to be removably secured to the leg of a chair,table, or like article of furniture to prevent said article of furniturefrom coming into contact with walls, draperies, and other pieces offurniture, and thus the device prevents the annoying damaging anddisfiguring of walls and furniture which are everyday householdoccurrences.

Another important object of this invention is the provision of afurniture bumper of the nature set forth which may be quickly and easilyattached to or detached from an article of furniture to facilitatecleaning, moving of the furniture, and for convenience when otheroccasions occur when removal of the device is desirable.

Still a further object and advantage of this invention is the provisionof a device of the character described which is of an extremely simple,durable, and inexpensive design and construction.

Still other objects and advantages of this invention will become readilyapparent when the following specification is considered in the light ofthe accompanying drawings.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of the bumper in an open disengaged position.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the bumper in an operable position.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the device as illustrated in Fig. 3.

Referring more particularly to the drawings in which like charactersindicate similar parts throughout the views, I designates asubstantially U-shaped clamp formed of a suitable length of spring wireor other suitable material having inherent resilience. The U-shapedclamp I has a straight, fiat foot portion 2 and integrally formed legpieces 3 and 4 which are bent to normally extend in parallel andperpendicularly to the foot portion 2. The outer extremity of each ofthe legs 3 and 4 are provided respectively with furniture engaging jaws5 and B. Each jaw comprises two short, integrally formed extensions 1and 8, the extension I being bent at about 70 degrees inward the mouthof the U, while the second extension 8 is bent at right angles to thepiece 1 to extend at about 85 degrees outwardly from the mouth of the U.

Each of the extensions 1 and 8 are provided with protective coveringpieces 9 which are preferably in the form of hard rubber sleeves whichare slidably telescoped over the extensions to be retained thereon byfrictional, resilient engagement with the extensions. Two more of theprotective coverings 9 are mounted in spaced relationship on the footportion 2.

It can be seen in Fig. 3 that the leg 3 and the leg 4 are bentoppositely to such an extent so that the extremities thereof arenormally maintained in adjacent planes so that they may be moved tointerposed positions as illustrated in Fig. 2.

In use the device is preferably laid horizontally on the floor I!) withthe foot portion 2 placed flush against the Wall H. The outer ends ofthe clamp are moved against their normal resilience to crossed positionsso that the lower end of the leg l2 of a piece of furniture can beplaced between the now substantially parallel extensions 9 of the legpieces of the clamp. The legs 3 and. 4 are released and allowed to beurged by their resilience until they come to contact opposite faces ofthe furniture leg and thus resiliently clamp the bumper on the furnitureleg.

Now it can be easily seen that a new and useful household device hasbeen provided which will hold the furniture at a distance from the wallor from other pieces of furniture so that the furniture will not damagewall surfaces, drapes or the like, and similarly the furniture cannot bedamaged by like contact.

Having thus described this unique and useful device which is to belimited only within the scope of the hereinafter following and appendedclaims, what I desire to claim in Letters Patent is:

1. A protective bumper for attachment to the leg of an article offurniture comprising, a substantially U-shaped element having parallellegs interconnected at one pair of adjacent ends by a foot portion,angular extensions provided inte- REFERENCES CITED The followingreferences are of record in the file of this patent:

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